Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clement Attlee, the Labour Party’s longest serving leader and prime minister from 1945–1951, belongs in the top tier of Britain’s ...

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For anyone with what used to be called “progressive tendencies,” the best, if largely overlooked, book of last year was surely John Bew’s biography of Clement Attlee, the leader of the British Labour ...

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As Tony Blair today overtakes Clement Attlee as leader of the longest uninterrupted Labour government, the two leaders' six-year records are being compared. On the face of it, that seems absurd. How ...

Readers respond to Martin Kettle’s piece contrasting the premierships of Labour leaders past and present Martin Kettle rightly says Aneurin Bevan is the one politician other than Clement Attlee whom ...

(JTA) — Clement Attlee, who served as prime minister of Britain in the aftermath of World War II, housed a refugee child who escaped from the Nazis just months before the start of the war, a British ...

On 3rd August 1945 at 10.45am, newly victorious Labour MPs assembled in Westminster to take their oath of allegiance. Clement Attlee, the new prime minister whose party had just won by a landslide, ...

Attlee turned in a stellar performance as Churchill’s wartime deputy. To begin with, he got along with Churchill, no mean feat. Many in the Labour Party felt that he was too deferential to the prime ...

Churchill left Attlee to run much of the home front during the war, which he did expertly, as well as presiding over the cabinet on the many occasions when Churchill was abroad. Meanwhile, Attlee let ...